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(No Model.)

A. MIKLAS.

TOY.

Patented June 2,1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALOIS MIKLAS, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, ASSIGNOR TO GEO.

BORGFELDT & 00., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TOY.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 453,201, dated June 2, 1891,.

I Application filed February 25, 1891. Serial No. 382,736. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALOIS MIKLAS, turner,

a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hun gary, a citizen of the city of Vienna, residing at Vienna, VI Wallgasse 17, have in vented a new and useful Toy, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a toy by which an optical illusion is produced; and it consists of a frame-work supporting two rollers, upon which rollers in opposite directions is closely wound a long piece of cloth or the like, so arranged on. both rollers that the general appearance of said rollers is that they are entirely disconnected, and that they are revolved one by friction with the other-when the latter is revolved by means of a small crank.

The object of my invention is to construct a toy so that by introducing a slip of paper or the like in one side and by turning the proper roller the paper will appear to run through the wringer and come out on the opposite side printed, or vice versa.

My invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of my device, showing a printed slip of paper partially wound upon one of the rollers. Fig. 2 is a rear view of Fig. 1, showing a blank piece of paper being rolled out from between the rollers; and Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the rollers and slips of paper on the line 3 3, Fig. 2.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in all figures.

A A is the frame-work supported by the post 13 on any suitable standard F.

D D are two rollers hung in the frame A, one end of each being adapted to receive the removable crank-handle a. Around each of these rollers is wound in opposite directions a strip of cloth E, long enough so that the space between said rollers is almost completely filled by the various thicknesses of the cloth around the rollers. By introducing a strip of paper a: between the rollers and turning one of the rollers (for instance D,

Fig. 1) by means of the removable crank a the printed scrap a; of paper, as shown in Fig. 1, is wound in between the rollers, but,instead of going through, is Wound up on the roller D between the dilferent layers of cloth E. By then introducing another scrap of paper y on the opposite side of the roller and by placing the crank a in the end I? of the other roller D the said roller may be revolved so as to draw in this last scrap 3 of paper; but at the same time the paper or, previously introduced, will be unwound and ejected from the opposite side.

In operation, by introducing and concealing several printed slips 0; m of papersuch as checks or the likeinto one side of the machine, one after another, the device is ready for exhibition. These slips :0 0c are concealed between the cloth E and one roller. By then taking a number of blank slips y y and rolling them one after another into the opposite side of the machine, as in Fig. 3, the printed slips x 00, previously rolled upon the other roller, simultaneously roll out from the opposite side, producing the very striking illusion of printing without the aid of type, &c. In other words, the toy is used to make believe that the blank pieces of paper are printed and printed pieces made blank by the machine.

Having thus described my; invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent and claim is- The combination, in a toy, of the frame A and the rollers D D with the cloth covering E, reversely wound on said rollers, and the removable crank a, adapted to turn either of the rollers, substantially as shown and de scribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALOIS MIKLAS.

Witnesses:

CONRAD BERG, SAMUEL WERTHEIM. 

